Are You Kidding Me?!: Chronicles of an Ordinary Life Lesley Crewe has written a boatload of novels. One of them, Relative Happiness, was made into a feature film and enjoyed by audiences at the (then) Atlantic Film Festival in 2014. Crewe is known for her long-form fiction, but she’s also known for taking the details […]
Fall Arts Preview
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Fall Arts Preview: Get lit(-erary) with these events
Wed Oct 2-Sun Oct 6 Afterwords Literary Festival The brainchild of some of very best and brightest folks putting pen to paper—Stephanie Domet, Sue Goyette, Stephens Gerard Malone, Rebecca Thomas and Ryan Turner—Afterwords aims to bring top-notch writers, both local and visiting, off their pages and into listening rooms around town. Treat your brain to […]
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Review: Atmospheric Events is brutally soft
Atmospheric Events Daily to Nov 24 Dalhousie Art Gallery It’s hard to love a brute—at least, hard to love a Brutalist building. Severe concrete structures like the one that makes up the Dalhousie Arts Centre—home to the University’s art gallery—have fallen out of fashion. They are seen as ugly remnants of misguided 20th century socialist […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Live music calendar
SEPTEMBER Vortex w/Enemy Designed, Ignightor Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street, $8, Sep 20,10pm Kids Losing Sleep w/Social Smokers Club, Izra Fitch The local four-piece Kids Losing Sleep calls its brand of Warped Tour-inspired punk “heartbreak you can dance to.” Gus’ Pub 2605 Agricola Street, $8, Sep 21, 10pm NAMU Prismatic Arts Festival brings this traditional […]
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Fall Art Preview: Devarrow contemplates adulthood versus #adulting
The questions pondered on the upcoming Devarrow album are more than just hashtag millennial problems. When indie folk singer-songwriter Graham Ereaux started recording songs for a new Devarrow LP, the original plan was to create a narrative-based record built around a person moving from small town to big city and the often conflicting concepts of […]
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Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Music
September Las Vegas to Nashville Superstars Show It’s a hat tip to Shania Twain, Dolly Parton, ABBA and over 20 more throwback acts as this crew of talented tribute performers take the stage. Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street, $35, Sep 27, 7:30pm Birdie Whyte & Caribou Run w/Nik Field & Ken Viota For her latest […]
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Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Visual Arts
14 Bells Fine Art Gallery Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-4pm, 5523 Young Street PHANTASMAGORIA Abstract works blooming with colour by Monika Wright. Nov 17-Dec 1 Anna Leonowens Gallery Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 12pm-4pm, Granville Square, 1891 Granville Street Travelling Textiles Visting Japanese artist Nobuko Hiroi arrives at the Anna Leonowens Gallery with this, an exhibit […]
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Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Stage
September fLAMENCO EN ROUGE: CAMINO FLAMENCO A multimedia production combining flamenco dance with live music, textile art and projected paintings. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street, Fri Sep 28, 7:30pm, $20 October SHAY KUEBLER RADICAL SYSTEM ART PERFORMS TELEMETRY Vancouver-based Shay Kuebler brings a mix of swing, tap and contemporary dance to […]
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Fall Arts Calendar 2018: Fests, Talks + Films
SEPTEMBER Flamenco Night with Virginia Castro Duràn While The Atlantic Flamenco Festival gives you a host of chances to fall for the Spanish stepping style, featuring Virginia Castro Durán, famed Spanish flamenco dancer, bringing her signature mix of stomping feet and coiling wrists to Halifax. The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, Thu Sep 27, 8pm, […]
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46 events and festivals to liven up your fall
PAUL GREENBERG The best-selling American author, who penned the 2014 effort on seafood sustainability Four Fish, comes to Halifax to talk about the future of our oceans and our fish-eating habits. Marion McCain Building, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, Thu Sep 14, 7-9pm PRISMATIC ARTS FESTIVAL This multi-genre festival—which includes theatre, dance and musical performances, […]
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Halifax Explosion: 100 years later
Explosion! Dartmouth’s Ordeal of the 1917 Disaster The Dartmouth Heritage Museum examines the dark side’s story of what happened 100 years ago on the morning of December 6, 1917. Dartmouth Heritage Museum, 26 Newcastle Drive, Dartmouth, to Jan 2018 The Halifax Explosion A documentary flick chronicling the morning of December 6 1917 (and its long-felt […]
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Prismatic Arts Festival at a glance
Prismatic 2017 Opening Gala R&B powerhouse Reeny Smith, HRM poet laureate Rebecca Thomas and more light up the Prismatic Festival’s kickoff with this swank celebration that’s also totally free! Claim your spot at tickethalifax.com. Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road, free, Thu Sep 14, 6pm Patti and Lawrence A media arts installation by Paul […]